My only Scrabble-related memory as a kid was playing the word "rape" because I'd seen it online but didn't know what it meant. Things got a bit awkward.
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A room full of adults yelling over each other for twenty minutes as they argue whether "Qatar" is a valid Scrabble word.
It's not. It's a proper noun. Names aren't valid.
Get an official Scrabble dictionary, ffs, people. There are rules for this.
That seems like it's taking half the fun out of the game
Fighting over what words count?
And convincing others Lletya is a real word
They have to Lletya use it
don't buy an extra dictionary, just pick any random dictionary you already have (or a dictionary website) and agree to it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed
On that day, you heard all about the wonders of canola
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broomrape
Try this for a change
These plant names are getting out of control
Of course it's in brassica.
Unrelated but, in Pokemon Scarlet/Violet the second gym leader is named after brassica and rapeseed in particular. I always thought the name origin was weird. I would've gone with a cabbage related name. Especially cause he looks like a cabbage more than a rapeseed plant.
I can't disagree, but I suppose he surrounds himself with olive and sunflower Pokemon enough to basically be an oil connoisseur.
Games are not meant to be fun. Games are meant for instilling discipline and life lessons. Losing at Scrabble made me the self made landlord that I am today.
Chutes and ladders leads many children to developing a nihilistic, absurdist world views in adulthood smdh
'ur', 'y', and 'fr' are all playable words now
How do you make Scrabble easier? The difficulty entirely depends upon your opponents.
They're taking out the scoring system and you have to do challenge cards such as getting a word on the border, making it horizontal or it has to have so many letters. The winner is the first person to do 20 of those. You can also make teams.
sounds like a good move tbh, as someone who plays a lot of Scrabble and Bananagrams there's a reason 80 percent of the time I reach for the latter. The scoring in Scrabble is probably the most annoying part of it - the "meta" that forms around specific placements thanks to 3X scores, the amount of times you will all just sit there in silence trying to find the maximum score instead of having fun
very keen to try an updated Scrabble
also the dictionary being rather small, in almost every game I've played, there will be many common words not in the dictionary, but plenty of obscure words.
My first thought was that. Many smaller board game makers are doing well with cooperative games, and it sounds like an easy way to do that with an established brand. Cooperative scrabble sounds like a lot of fun to me.
Sounds like the woke mind virus has gotten to you. Everyone knows Scrabble is about crushing your opponents and spicing your letter tiles with their tears.
More vowels maybe?
Two different bags, to separate out concenants and vowels, perhaps?
Scrabble trying to atone for all the broken marriages and friendships. Love to see a villain get a redemption arc.
the youths like bananagrams anyway
Hey Fox, go fuck yourself
Honestly?
This is probably just another desperate attempt by Big Board Game to stay relevant
Because I legitimately am having a hard time trying to figure out what they could possibly change in order to make it more inclusive or less competitive aside from just inventing a cooperative version where you try to fill the board with as many big letter words as you can and add the points collectively
The death of the American Board Game is nigh. Long live the reign of Eurogames.
Better game nights are possible when you realise that board games don't have to be all the exact same 50+ year old Parker Bros shits that either take 5 hours, are incredibly bullshit games of chance, or both.
You can take my Ameritrash bullshit from my cold, dead hands. Well, some of it, anyway.
Okay, yes, there are some decent American board games, but the crap ones are finally circling the drain and that makes me happy as a boardgame enjoyer.
Ooh also I got a really good deals on some nice puzzles from Buffalo last week and got 3 of 'em for $7 US and I'm very happy about it
What are some good ones?
Ticket to ride
Agricola
Race for the galaxy
Word games in general are massively popular on mobile these days, not just wordle. These are all basically some variant of the core challenge of scrabble so they're probably trying to figure out how to surf this wave.
It's just a rules update to make game play faster so a game isn't just 2 hours of looking at a hand of useless vowels.
They could be accused of trying to copy video game like objectives but board games have also been largely replaced with digital versions of the game so makes sense.
A new version of Scrabble is set to be released for the first time in 75 years
Absolutely zero research done. Let's forget Tile Lock Scrabble and Scrabble Deluxe (and Deluxe Travel Edition) since they don't alter gameplay substantially, but the existence of Super Scrabble (from 2004), Scrabble Junior (from 1958, which is 66 years ago), Scrabble Overturn (1989), Scrabble BINGO (recent), Scrabble Trickster (~2010), and Scrabble: World of Harry Potter (also recent, but ignoring this is fine) clearly refutes their point. And then for looser spin-offs (ex. Scrabble Cards—not to be confused with Scrabble Slam! and Scrabble: Alphabet Scoop (yeah, tell me SAC came out more than 75 years ago)), they didn't specify what a "version of Scrabble" entails, so I'd say it's at best misleading even if we didn't have the other versions.
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How tf does easier = more inclusive? Do you still have to spell shit? Then its still just as barring for people with issues with spelling shit. Removing barriers makes things inclusive, and that often means things get easier, but it doesn't have to and it doesn't go the other way as I've just argued.
And what would they do to make it easier? Hand in a dictionary? Smh corporations are fucking stupid. People aren't buying Scrabble because it's not woke or inclusive enough, people aren't buying Scrabble because everyone already owns the game! You won! You're done! The game is in every attic! It's fucking over go home! Make a new game! You don't have to keep doing this! I feel like I'm in that sketch from collegehumor about Oreos FFS.
As far as I can understand they're introducing challenge cards and making it cooperative? That sounds like fun, but hey ITS A NEW GAME CONGRATULATIONS YOU MADE A NEW GAME YOU DONT HABE TO KEEP MAKING SCRABBLE.
Also scrabble is fun and if you're spending 2 hours, then you're doing it wrong. Unless you're having fun, then you're doing it right.
You can always just play with alternative rules.
How do you release a more inclusive version of letters and a board of squares for those letters to occupy?
Double the number of l, b, g, t, q, i, a tiles
They already did that and it's called bananagrams.
Bananagrams is very good
Fun fact: if your favorite board game is Monopoly or Risk, you're a cop, a landlord, a fed, or some combination of those three.
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Marketing to boomers 101
without checking what the fuck this could possibly mean, i'm 90% confident that this is nothing
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